Gu Kailai

Murder case involving Gu Kailai's verdict on Monday

A Chinese court is due to deliver its verdict, and likely sentence, on Monday in a case against Gu Kailai over the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, in the latest chapter in a scandal that toppled her once-powerful politician husband, Bo Xilai.

The who's who of China's biggest political scandal in recent times

The political scandal surrounding one of China's most high-profile politicians, Bo Xilai, whose wife is charged in the murder of a British man, is the messiest to strike the ruling Communist Party in years.

Murder, confession by Bo Xilai's wife raises questions in China

Also, why would a high official's wife carry out such a murder herself? Where is Bo Xilai, the alleged murderer's husband and man at the center of the messiest scandal in two decades to rock the Chinese leadership?

Bo Xilai's wife confesses to killing Brit

The Chinese woman accused of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood admitted guilt and blamed a mental breakdown for the events that brought her to trial and toppled her once-powerful politician husband.

China presses offensive against Bo with police trial

China pressed ahead with an offensive against ousted politician Bo Xilai on Friday, a day after the murder trial of his wife, with a separate prosecution of four police officers accused of trying to cover up the killing that she was accused of.

Bo Xilai wife's trial being held behind closed doors

China's most politically sensitive trial in three decades was held behind closed doors on Thursday as police dragged two protesters away from the courthouse where the wife of ousted Politburo member Bo Xilai is expected to be convicted of murder.

China opens murder trial of Bo Xilai's wife

China's most politically sensitive trial in three decades opened on Thursday with police dragging two protesters away from a courthouse where the wife of ousted Politburo member Bo Xilai is expected to be swiftly convicted of murder.

Bo tapped calls to China's Hu: NYT

The Party's official version of events has omitted the tapped call by a visiting Chinese minister to Hu in August. If true, the report confirms rumours of the incident that had spread since Bo's ouster in March.

Heywood's wife, children left with 'five-digit' sum savings in British pounds

Expatriate British businessman Neil Heywood, left his wife and children in a financially uncertain situation in China, prompting a former business associate to pay for their plane tickets to attend his London funeral.

Briton poisoned after threatening to expose Bo's wife: sources

It was the first time a specific motive has been revealed for Neil Heywood's murder last November, a death which ended Chinese leader Bo Xilai's hopes of emerging as a top central leader and threw off balance the Communist Party's looming leadership succession.